Radio host Paul Gambaccini will face no charges in Yewtree investigation

Radio and TV broadcaster Paul Gambaccini has been told he will not face charges over allegations of historic sexual offences.

He was held in October last year over incidents that were alleged to have taken place in the early 1980s, however, prosecutors today said that there is “insufficient evidence” to take the case further.

Mr Gambaccini, 65, who had been working at the BBC, had been arrested as part of the Metropolitan Police’s Operation Yewtree.

He has always maintained his innocence and today said that he will not be giving interviews or making “provocative statements” as “to discuss horror in this way is to trivialise it”.